By Thomas Moller-Nielsen

( EurActiv ) — Bulgaria will allow a plane carrying Vladimir Putin to fly through its airspace to facilitate a planned meeting between the Russian leader and Donald Trump in Budapest later this month, the country’s foreign minister said on Monday.

“When efforts are made to achieve peace, if the condition for this is to have such a meeting, it is most logical that such a meeting should be mediated in [all] possible ways,” Georg Georgiev told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

“How is it proposed to hold the meeting if one of the participants cannot get to it?” he added.

No request has yet been made by Moscow to allow Putin’s aircraft to pass over the Black Sea nation, a Bulgarian official confirmed.

Bulgaria does

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